Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-20
DAILY HERALD.
CITY OF FRESNO.
The San joaquin Valley
Metropolis.
GREAT COMMERCIAL CENTER.

The City Of the Plain Expanding
in Wealth and Overlooking
with Prosperity.
To stranger approa ching the town OF
Fresno, in Fresno county, ON the swift.
cafe flying cars of the Southern Pacific
Company, the appearance of seven or
eight great. capacious warehouses and
miles of freight cars along the track
.suegests the question "What are all
these things fort"
But on alighting from the train and
viewing the industries of the place the
question 4 easily answered. Fresno is
near the csnter of the San Joaquin val
Icy. $50 miles from Los Angeles in
portherly direction and 206 miles south
eat of San Francisco, in a great agri-
cultural and genealogical center without
. rival.
Il is the county seat, with popula.
stion Of $500 persons. has an elevation
ike Los Angeles, of 300 feet above the
sea; busy. thriving population that 10
always in : hurry aud no loafers to hang
around the corners of the streets. The
,inhabitants Of the city have more than
doubled in the Last three years, and
.propsrty has doubled In value within
'&he last year.
9 The city has large, beautiful and i'm
posing courthouse standing in park OF
twelve acres in the center Of the town.
1t has . large and excellent public
.sohoolhouse, where 500 children are
instructed by eight teachers. Another
house viii soon be erected for the in
creased accommodation of the schools.
NlIs church buildings afford ample facil-
ities for worship for the people.
Four banks of loan and deposit with
. capital of 81, 800. 900 afford all needful
financial advantages TO the citizens.
MANUFACTURING INTERESTS.
The Fresno Milling Company has
avuperb Touring mill with motive power
by water of 5000 cubic feet of water
per minute. 1t grinds by the roller pro.
cess 200 barrels Of -four per day, which
arc sent into various parts of the State
and New Mexico and Arizona.
II has also q large cannery and raisin.
packing house, an ice factory, soap
factory, gas works. public water works,
which give clear water from wells, two
,planing mills and three lumber yards
The warehouses are ample for the stor-
ago Of 1000, 900 bushels of grain. be-
sides wool, wine, raisios and Hour in
abundance.
Tho city is supplied with an opera
house, IN armory hall, l40x60 feet. and
. splendid Masonic temple. II has also
three very live newspapers, the daily
end weekly Exposisor, published by the
ever popular J. w. Ferguson; the
FFcmo weekly Democrat, published by
J. H. Wsggoner 4 Co., very hand
some Journal, and the excellent Fresno
Repxbliean. by Messrs. Short 4 shank.
lin. All these papers are doing noble
work for Fresno city and county, and de-
servo an excellent support.
Fresno has . fine military organiza-
tion called the Forsythe Guards. The
smembers are ell picked men and are
usuaily from s feet 10 inches to 6 feet 3
inches in height, under command of n.
W. Muller. Captain; s. s. Wright, First
Lieutenant, and D. s. Snodgrass, Second
Lieutenant. The company is the pride
: Of the city.
RAILROAD LINES AND BUSINESS.
The Southern Pacific Company,
between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
passes through the center of the orig nal
townsite and derives large business
from this place. The freight bills of
this company at Fresno now amount to
80. 900 per month. Two street railways
are now in contemplation and franchises
have been applied for. One will run in
m easterly direction to the famous
Barton vineyard and winery, and the
other starting from the same point in the
center Of the business part OF the city
will extend southerly to the race track.
The first line will be chartered as
dummy and the second as a horse-car
line. Geo. w. Meade and Geo. L.
Bradley, of San Francisco, and J. r.
White, M. G. Church and W. W. Phil.
lips are the incorporators.
Geo. w. Meade & Co., who have just
established large commercial house in
Los Angeles, have purchased large
0uOuut "a tcAu6bAC ACoA CSt3tS III tAtS
city and will soon commence the erec.
tion Of large brick hotel on the corner
of J and Tulare streets. A stock CON-
pany headed by Thomas E. Hughes,
will erect another similar hotel ON the
corner OF 81 aad Tulare streets. These
two great, beautiful buildings will stand
on neighboring corners on the same
street. Their combined cost will reach
100000.
A fire insurance company has just been
started with a capital Of $20O, 900, and a
photographic company with capital of
$50, ,000 Sales of real estate in the city
are of daily occurrence and are made at
steadily advancing prices.
A single sale OF $4,000 was made on
Friday (lSth) and the purchaser thinks
he sees $780, profit in the venture.
Building operations are going on on all
sides and the town seems 10 be having
genuine boom of strictly legitimate
nature.
OTHER IMPORTANT PROJECTS.
A company has been formed with a
capital of $50, 900 to construct V fume
from the headwaters of Kings river to
Fresno, for sliding down the vast quan.
titles Of pine lumber along that stream.
A narrow gauge railway is also contem-
plated from Fresno to the pineries and
che stock and depot grounds have been
secured and the line surveyed. Still
another connection is proposed between
Fresno and the lumber and mining region
and that il for the Atchissn, Topeka
and Santa -Fe railroad to extend it's line
westerly and northerly from Mojave to
Walkers Pass and thence to Fresno and
San Francisco.
A company hss also been formed here
to make a canal navigable for canal
boats and light draught steamers from
the headwaters of the San Joaquin
down over the plain, on the north of
the city, with facilities for irrigation as
we'll as navigation. About q hundred
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